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In 1995, an educator and columnist for the Sichuan Daily newspaper described a scene that took place in a city in southwest China. A crowd was watching a woman in her thirties half-carrying and half-dragging a small boy from a public playground. The woman was twisting the boy’s ear with one hand, hitting him with the other, and shouting that her son “had brought her nothing but shame.”
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Naftali, O. (2014). Introduction. In: Children, Rights and Modernity in China. Studies in Childhood and Youth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137346599_1
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